The FilmSoc Journal is back for the 75th edition of the largest film festival in France, delivering a look at the hits and misses of …
Cannes Film Festival 2022: A Guide To The Festival
‘Sunset Boulevard’ Review
Madeline Choi reviews Billy Wider’s classic film noir comedy Sunset Boulevard, which screened at FOMI 2022. The first day of this year’s Festival of the …
‘No Time To Die’: A Canonical Incongruence
Thomas Round analyses the legacy of the famed British spy James Bond in the context of his reputation, his origins, and the myths surrounding him. …
Something Male in Every Woman and Female in Every Man: Gender and the Cronenbergian Body
The space occupied by the body as an inseparable component of the built environment has existed since perhaps the very inception of cinema as a …
‘Ticket to Paradise’ (2022) – Review
Madeline Choi reviews the newest rom-com tropes following flick that will make you laugh and space out to ‘exotic’ lands. Another classic feel-good formulaic rom-com, …
BFI Flare 2022: ‘Passion’ Review
Mara Dinu reviews Maja Borg’s daring documentary about the ties between the worship differences in sex-movements and religion. Everybody experiences the world uniquely and relationships …
LIFF 2022: ‘Urf’ Review
Aryan Tauqeer reviews Geetika Narang Abbasi’s Urf, a documentary following the lives of three Bollywood-star look-alikes. In 2016, the project that director Maneesh Sharma had …
LIFF 2022: ‘Once Upon a Time in Calcutta’ Review
Aryan Tauqeer reviews Once Upon a Time in Calcutta, Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s cinematic letter to the city of Kolkata. Earlier last year, the incumbent Bharatiya …
‘Better Call Saul’ : Final Season Review
Aadesh Gupta reviews the final season of the crime and legal drama television series Better Call Saul and its bond to its predecessor Breaking Bad. …
LIFF 2022: ‘Do Baaraa’ Review
Aryan Tauqeer reviews LIFF’s opening night film Do Baaraa, an Anurag Kashyap mystery drama. “Gangs of Wasseypur has been my greatest undoing” This was Anurag …